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NYC Restaurants

Frontend and backend are separated:
ux: client-app
backend: service

The document manipulation is handle in the backend, leaving the ux only for display content.

from the root of the project:
this will build the backend and frontend.

npm install

How to test the project:
this will start the backend and frontend.
backend: http://localhost:8080/
frontend: http://localhost:4200/

npm start

MongoDB connection to a localhost

// change db connection
// service/config/database.js
module.exports = {
    database: 'mongodb://localhost/nyc-restaurants'
}

Key Factors:

  • The API full search will work only if the fulltext index exist associated to field searchText
db.Restaurant.createIndex({"searchText":"text"})
  • Price field missing from Restaurent Model. I decided to ignore that functionality.

  • This is not pixel perfect from the mockup. This is a fair approximation. For a pixel perfect, I will request:

    • Photoshop file
    • Font names and sizes
    • Smaller screen mockup or designer suggestions.
  • API returned collection modified in the service and not in the client. I made this decision because I wanted leave the client-app with logic related to the UX. For a real life project, I will think in service or API performance and loading before to take this kind of decisions.

Restaurant {
  _id?: string;
  name: string;
  cuisine: string;
  grade: string;
  address: string;
  phone: string;
  imageUrl: string;
  gradeDate: string;
  inspection: {
    grade_date: string;
    grade_date_first: string;
    action: string;
    violation_code: string;
    violation_desc: string;
    score: string;
    grade: string;
    inspection_type: string;
  };
}
  • Format Date in the API. I made this decision similar to what I said in N.3 and because I wanted to sort the Inspections object in the API.
  • Inspection object was missing in some record and the individual result image didn't show all the information about inspection. Therefore, I decided to bring an unique simplified inspection object.
  • Inspections where sorted before to be pick the latest and the first, this for restaurants with more than one inspection.
  • In the indiviual view, the first date show in the inspections section represent the first inspection. if the Restaurant only has one inspection entry, it will be repeated.
  • Grade entries from the database has more than A,B,C and Grading Panding. Therefore, anything that was not A,B,C were marked as Grading Pending.
  • used mongoose-aggregate-paginate to simplify my life with the results and pagination
  • I used Bootstrap Pagination with arrows because some results there were really big.
  • Key Files:
// API calls
service/routes/api.js
service/utils/utils.js

// Rest Service Front-End Back-End interaction:
client-app/src/app/services/rest.service.ts

// home components
client-app/src/app/home/home.component.ts
client-app/src/app/home/home.component.html 

// results components
client-app/src/app/results/results.component.ts
client-app/src/app/results/results.component.html
client-app/src/app/results/results.component.scss

Screenshoot

  • Homepage Screenshot

  • Results Screenshot

  • Individual Screenshot

  • Responsive Design Sample:

  • Small

  • Homepage

Screenshot

  • Results

Screenshot

  • Individual

Screenshot

  • Medium
  • Homepage

Screenshot

  • Results

Screenshot

  • Individual

Screenshot

Development Process

  1. Create backend api with NodeJS and Express
  2. Add package:
  • mongoose connect to MongoDb
  • mongoose-aggregate-paginate simplify MongoDB queries and results
  • nodemon continues developing
  1. write utils library.
  • In this way, the json data send to UX ready to be used.
  1. Api call example:
  1. Parameters:
  • search: string 100 character max
  • page: number 1 as default
  • grade: string used to sort
  1. Create ux client with Angular 6, Material and bootstrap.
  2. responsive UX (I added only 4 different sizes). Tested using Firefox Responsive Design Mode.

Suggestions

  • It is not pixel perfect of the requirement. Instead, it is a fair approach.
  • Dropdown filters by Grade, Cusine, Date of Inspection.
  • Add Number of results. Now is 12 but can be added as dropdown.
  • Add Cache results, avoid to API call for existing results
  • Remove Formating Fields from Service and put it n the Client-app.
  • Better variable names.
  • Add more MongoDB index.
  • More responsible screen types and standard media query break points.

References

  1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46117989/what-is-the-recommended-way-to-dynamically-set-background-image-in-angular-4
  2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45696685/bootstrap-4-search-input-with-an-icon
  3. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/input-group/
  4. https://angular.io/guide/
  5. https://css-tricks.com/books/volume-i/scale-typography-screen-size/
  6. https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-aggregate-paginate
  7. https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/components/pagination/api
  8. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10123953/sort-javascript-object-array-by-date
  9. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/
  10. https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/components/modal/examples
  11. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/text/
  12. https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/
  13. https://www.seamless.com/lets-eat
  14. https://www.thomasnet.com/
  15. https://css-tricks.com/

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